For a new band, South Wales based bruisers 33 have some pedigree. Born out of the cream of local bands, 33 was conceived as a vehicle for nihilistic sing-along hardcore emulating the likes of Sheer Terror, Blood For Blood and…
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All of a sudden Monster Magnet are back with a new album ‘Mastermind’, a new up to date website which has been a long time in coming, which is very good. Monster Magnet are right in the middle of a…
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Time is a funny thing, it seems like only yesterday that I was enthusing wildly about Locrian’s second album, ‘Territories’, and now I’m clutching a copy of ‘The Crystal World’, their third full-length release, in my grubby paws and about…
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After a protracted period of birthday celebrations, holidays, illness, more birthday inebriation, sleep depravation and a Monster Magnet show I finally felt I had achieved the correct mindset to embark on a psychedelic journey with trippy Brooklyn band Lost Coves….
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France has been throwing up some verrrrrry interrrrestink extreme musick over the last few years, what with Deathspell Omega, Monarch!, Alcest, Amesoeurs, Gojira etc, and punishingly bleak, psychedelic-industrial-tinged sludgesters Danishmendt are yet another feather in the collective gallic cap. Try…
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Since Eyehategod came belching out of our speakers nearly 20 years with their thuggish take on Sabbath riffs, feedback and psychotic vocals there has been no shortage of bands vying for their crown. Liverpool’s Iron Witch are the latest to…
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Look, there’s no easy, tactful way to put this, so I’ll just come out with it. If you don’t own these recordings and you claim to be a fan of Drone, Sludge and/or Doom, then YOU, sir (or madam), are…
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Have you ever heard a sound so unrepentantly and monolithically dense it makes your head feel as though it’s in danger of bursting and your eyes feel like they will burst from their sockets in a shower of gore? This…
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I’d like, if I may, to quote a few lines from a great poet of the people by way of introduction to this recording… “We decide to get away, And have some fun, Book a room and catch a flight,…
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From the four corners of Avalon did gather the keepers of the flame of doom, drawn together by the power of Thee Riffe to save the world from the evil powers of Emo…or something like that. Groan are the latest…
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